We were married in June and so then he got called and he tried to join the Marines and they wouldn’t take him and he got called to go to Columbus but he had flat feet, 4th degree flat feet, they wouldn’t take him. So I said, “I’ll take him!” (Laughs) So he never had to go to service. Then he got a job at Marathon. He worked at Wilson’s for a few months and then he got a job at Marathon. He was there for 36.5 years.

He was in the Office Supply Department. When he left he was the coordinator. He had about ten fellows under him. He did real well for a fellow who only had a high school education.

His parents….they probably did well. They went to eighth grade. They were very poor people and they had a farm out there. The house is still there where he was born and raised right out in Mount Blanchard, and there were seven children. He was the last of seven, and he was eleven years younger than the next one to him! He was a surprise. His mother was 44 when he was born!

But it was a blessing because his father was blind for 30 years and he was a help to him mom. We had two children. Two years after we were married we had Roger, who now lives here in Findlay and has three children.

Larry was born three years later. Today, Larry’s main home is in Rochester, New York and he has two girls and a home at the Villages in Florida. So we have these two boys. Larry has a Master’s degree in computer science which he loved and he worked for Kodak for 30 years. Our son in town worked for Cooper for 40 years, so we’re proud of our sons.

I did some odd and end jobs around. I wanted to stay home and take care of my boys so I never worked outside of the home much. Just maybe at Christmas time or something like that. That’s about all.